PHP is probably the most popular scripting language on the web. It is used to enhance web pages. With PHP, you can do things like create username and password login pages, check details from a form, create forums, picture galleries, surveys, and a whole lot more. If you've come across a web page that ends in PHP, then the author has written some programming code to liven up the plain, old HTML.

PHP stands for Personal Home Page and abbreviated as Hypertext Preprocessor.It is a open source scripting language used in the field of web development. Its main purpose is to create dynamic web pages.PHP is easy to learn and understand when compare to some other language.

PHP is Hyper-text Preprocessor server side scripting language is designed for web site development but also can be used an general-purpose programming language. PHP commands can easily embedded directly into HTML source document rather than calling an external file to process data.